the 75-minute quilt

    1. Be delighted that two young, modern and stylish friends are having a baby. Happily plan a modern, stylish quilt.
    2. On the date designated for sewing the quilt, sleep all day instead.
    3. Give up and accept the fact I’ll just buy crap from their registry as their baby gift.
    4. At 11:15 am exactly, less than two hours before the shower, suddenly decide to make that quilt.
    5. Gather materials from stash.

pile of textile

    1. Iron, quick.
    2. Rip (not cut) strips of fabric.

color blocks

    1. Stitch strips together while starting to sweat profusely.
    2. Use barely-acceptable-as-best letter embroidery function on sewing machine.

no hand embroidering here

    1. Sew sew sew. I sewed batting to the backing then sewed the pieced front to the batting/batting (front to front). Turned right-side out, stitched the perimeter. Bam.

bam done

  1. At 12:30 exactly, clip threads, check for pins, and wrap the quilt.
  2. Shower, dress, get lost, be 1/2 hour late.
  3. Present quilt to the young and modern and stylish couple.

hey, the quilt!

PS “Mustache” was the shower’s theme, due to the luxurious and oft-waxed mustache of the dad-to-be. In fact, my improv group gave him the nickname of “Mooshi” (short for moo-stachio). Hence:

baby shower mustache game

mini moosh